Sunday, November 11, 2012

Unlearn the Constellations to See the Stars

Earthgirl and I took motherfucking Metro (and O! Metro motherfuckers) yesterday to see the Roy Lichtenstein retrospective at the East Wing, that's the video of our trip, where were you? Some really good images of permanent East Wing art, but East Wing allows you to take photos of permanent exhibitions while forbidding photos of visiting exhibitions, I was only able to sneak one shot of a Lichtenstein, this one, taken totally at random:

And got HEY!ed by the guard, annoyed I made him look up from his iPhone. Lichtenstein's cartoon-themed paintings he's renowned for never ever oomphed me (despite the above), but up those stairs to the left of that painting, up the stairs past Lichtenstein's cartoon phase, Holyfuck. Holyfuck. I had never seen his sculpture in person, Holyfuck, the dot paintings, Holyfuck, the Japanese paintings, Holyfuck. HEY!, here start the Mekon requests I promised, below the fold more Mekon requests lotsa links, Jack Gilbert poems!

So, Metro was single-tracking Red Line for maintenance like they do every fucking weekend, forty-five minute wait there, forty-five minute wait back, they motherfuckers were charging Rush Hour fares. Fuckers.

Hey! Did you know that Washington DC has a professional soccer team? It's true, they play at four this afternoon
in Summer in Houston, where they never win, where Houston plays on a
cheater's field, where if they come out only a goal down I'll consider
it a victory.

There were a couple girls at the Halloween bash a couple weekends back who thought they were original for dressing up as Lichtenstein paintings until they saw each other, which of course meant priceless moments for yours truly!